Chef's Table: The Vacation

If you’re like us, you’ve devoured your fair share of Chef’s Table episodes on Netflix, then immediately got really, frustratingly hungry for whatever delicious food item they pornographically depicted on-screen. Unfortunately, said food item was likely out of reach, exclusively available from a specific chef in some far-flung destination.

“Dangit,” you probably thought to yourself, before sating your appetite with, we don’t know, noodles. “I’ll never get to try any of that cool stuff.”

To be perfectly clear: this isn’t the kind of trip where the people planning it cobbled together a series of things any old person could do and packaged it as something new. The specialists at Black Tomato put in some serious work here, extensively researching the experiences with their chef-partners on the ground. As a result, you can partake in an Andean earth ceremony with the guidance of a local shaman, visit a Spanish txoco, a secret food-focused social club that attracts some of the best local chefs, and eat dinner at the home of the daughter of Janez Bratovž, who’s widely regarded as the father of modern Slovenian fine dining. We imagine the food she serves you will be extremely not bad.

Currently, Black Tomato is offering five different itineraries, in five different locales, in direct collaboration with five different chefs—though they’ll add more in the future. And while they're flexible with regards to the duration of each trip, they will ideally last roughly one to two weeks.

Another trip, created with Michelin-starred chef Dani López, will send you to San Sebastián for a little over a week, where you’ll take a tour of the city’s pintxo bars, check out the aforementioned txoco, enjoy a private cooking lesson from López and spend a day sampling the wares from Rioja’s finest wineries.